> 1) Unpack the .war into a suitable directory (unpacking is needed
> due to the way the servlet API is built, paths to documents are
> handled as straight file paths).
Actually, a server can support WARs without requiring the user to do any
unpacking. First, the server can read directly from the WAR -- assuming
the servlet programmer propertly used the getResource() methods
introduced in API 2.1 which were designed to support exactly this.
Second, the server could unpack the WAR into a temp directory itself on
startup and read files out of the temp dir. The API 2.2 reference
implementation (Jakarta) supports both of these techniques.
-jh-
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